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Seventeen
(17) bills are currently on the House agenda for the week of July 10. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/
Let's take a look so we know what to expect. We can make any last-minute
calls or send emails to our representatives to voice our expectations of
how we would like them to vote on specific bills. One of the bills on the
House agenda this week is HR2810: National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA). Here is the text of the bill as of July 6: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2810/text
This bill is for the defense budget and we should expect to hear more
about it in the media this week.

There’s been bipartisan criticism of
Trump’s ridiculous idea of working with Vladimir Putin to stop future
election hacking – Senator Lindsey Graham said it wasn’t the dumbest idea
he’d ever heard, but it was pretty close (http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/graham-working-with-russia-not-the-dumbest-idea-but-close-989079107596). But it’s not enough for members of
both parties just to criticize him to the idea. Republicans have done that
plenty. They need to actually take action and stop this from happening.
Let’s all call our members of Congress and tell them to use the
appropriations process to bar the President from forming this “joint
cyber-security unit,” and to instead provide federal assistance to states
and localities to help secure out election infrastructure against future
hacks.

​The reason Republicans are in such a
rush to pass Wealthcare is that they're eager to move on to cutting taxes
even more for the wealthy. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/29/moderates-republicans-oppose-gop-budget-240114) ​To do that, they're going to need to
pass a budget - and the current budget proposal will cut more than $200
billion from programs for hungry kids, affordable housing and veterans.
Let's call our members of Congress and tell them to oppose any budget that
makes our children and working families pay so that millionaires and
billionaires don't have to.

The Fair and Equal Housing Act of 2017
(H.R. 1447), which would amend the Fair Housing Act to protect the LGBTQ
community from housing discrimination, has stalled in the House.
Meanwhile, the department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has
removed resources on its website that would help inform housing providers
of rules that protect the LGBTQ community http://bit.ly/2u6AIaV If our senator was among the 30 who
sent a letter to HUD Secretary Ben Carson calling out the removal of
resources, let's make sure we thank them. Let's also make sure that we
contact our representatives, as well as the House Subcommittee on
Constitution and Civil Rights, and tell them that we want H.R. 1447 to
move forward, out of committee http://bit.ly/2t1oPOH Let’s also contact Ben
Carson to let him know that we are concerned too and expect him to protect
LGBTQ citizens from housing discrimination. Ben Carson, HUD, 451 7th St
SW, Washington DC 20410, or we can call: 202-708-1112.

“[Pope]
Francis, the first non-European pope in 1,300 years, said he was afraid of
"very dangerous alliances among (foreign) powers that have a
distorted vision of the world: America and Russia, China and North Korea,
(Vladimir) Putin and (Bashar al-)Assad in the war in Syria." He said the greatest danger concerned
immigration, with "the poor, the weak, the excluded and the
marginalised" juxtaposed with "those who... fear the invasion of
migrants". https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-germany-pope-idUSKBN19T09W
Let’s make sure that we let our MoCs know that we, too, are concerned
about this growing distorted vision of the world on the part of our
leader.

Over the weekend Sen.
Rubio (R-FL) tweeted, “Partnering
with Putin on a "Cyber Security Unit" is akin to partnering with
Assad on a "Chemical Weapons Unit". Let’s let Sen. Rubio know
that we agree and that HE is in a position to do something about it. https://contactsenators.com/florida/marco-rubio

A loophole in US campaign finance law
allows elected officials—yes, the President, too—to coordinate with dark
money organizations to push their agendas, including supporting or
opposing Cabinet nominees, judicial nominees, and policies. Five dark
money organizations, for example, spent more than $14 million to get
Gorsuch nominated to the Supreme Court. Dark money organizations are
nonprofits that don’t have to disclose their donors to the public. Let’s
send this link to our MoCs: https://maplight.org/story/white-house-relied-upon-dark-money-lobbyist-to-quarterback-gorsuch-confirmation/
and tell them that we demand transparency in government and we want this
loophole closed.

Other Actions

From one of our own: Regarding Zappos carrying Ivanka shoes
-- I made my monthly call to Zappos today, and was passed on to the
same department I've expressed concerns to before. When I asked to move up
the food chain, I was given the name of the CEO (Tony Hseih) (yes, that is
the correct spelling, per customer service) with an email address ofceo@zappos.com. I just sent an email expressing my
concerns about factory working conditions and harassment of those
investigating same. Let’s use this
name and email address to do make our concerns known, too. We can also snail mail him here: 400 Stewart Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89101

Why should we care about net
neutraliity? CNET states it this way: "That [net neutrality] means
your broadband provider, which controls your access to the Internet, can't
block or slow down the services or applications you use over the Web. It
also means your Internet service provider -- whether it's a cable company
or telephone service -- can't create so-called fast lanes that force
content companies like Netflix to pay an additional fee to deliver their
content to customers faster." https://www.cnet.com/news/13-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-fccs-net-neutrality-regulation/Let's not forget that July 12th is
the Internet-wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality. We can learn more
about the day of action, and sign up to participate https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/

From one of our own:
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has
initiated a review of the eligibility of Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania to
receive benefits under AGOA. Rwanda is banning used clothes that are
gutting their textile market.https://thisisafrica.me/rwanda-will-proceed-ban-used-clothes-despite-threats-united-states/We should reach out to
United States Trade Representative, Robert E. Lighthizer and ask him to
continue their eligibility for duty-free access to the American market.
Office of the United States Trade Representative, 600 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20508.

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